DiskStation DS1522+

I switched from a DS1522+ to a Ugreen 4800plus running Unraid, and I can’t say I miss anything. Once you get past the small learning curve, it’s perfectly fine. Another option would be ARC Loader with Xpenology. I tested that before Unraid, and it worked perfectly. I’m not sure about the backup prog

Way too old, and do NOT shop for new Synology. Last generation is basically Synology's "death date". People are going "what the fuck is this dude going on about?" Well, I'm going on about Synology requiring the use of their own branded HDDs and NVMEs moving forward just to access basic features. So

same feedback and feeling with as6604t... go work and came back 8 hours later, it is off... nfs randomly shutdown itself... password reset after firmware upgrade... the hell !!! my primary nas ds1522+ has never get an issue... I don't use any container on them ! storage only.

A N150 PC is head and shoulders above a Synology NAS for running Plex Media Server. Use a Syno NAS for storage, but run PMS on a different system. The N150 is a more powerful CPU than the Intel Celerons or AMD Rxxxx CPUs used by Synology. Furthermore, the Intel Graphics in the N150 is more capable t

Nice setup. The idea behind the QNAP is to protect from failure of the DS1522+, or multiple drive failures. It also allows me to use Backblaze for off-site cloud storage in the unlikely event of a natural disaster or fire that would destroy both of my units in my home. Yes, redundancy upon redundanc

Thank you for your reply and sounds like I am on the same journey you have been on! Touch wood, Tailscale just works perfectly and Ive not noticed any issues with latency or packet loss, only with Plex, but then again the DS1522+ was never designed to do that well. For the containers, I only use Por

TBH, grab a Minisforum N5 Pro or another equivalent. Then you can run MUCH larger models on the Radeon 890M iGPU than on any consumer GPU. But you'd need a 3rd party OS (unraid or truenas usually) so overall don't expect any personalized support, not from Minis, certainly not from the OS developer.

I am using Synology DS1522+ model. it's 5 bay NAS. purchased offline experience : works fine

I do homelabbing and have tons of VMs and containers, but for an NAS I valued brand reputation and "it just works". Went with a Synology DS1522+, of which I'm only using 3 bays right now. Anyhoo -- I'd recommend Synology or UGREEN, the former being the more established but now riskier brand due to r

Good idea. To be fair, I feel it will be relatively fast for my experience, considering I was using a DS918+, and now am using a DS1522+.